The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-08-24
SAYINGS BY BOB INcERsoLL,
Extracts from III Addrcss Made by Hi
In n Lecture In New York.

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In q lecture delivered in New York re
Gently, Col. Robert G.. Ingcrsoll among
other things said:
If nobody has too much everybody
will have enough.
would like to sec this world so that a
man could die and not feel that he had
left his wife and children n prey to the
greed or avaricc or necessities Of man.
kind.
There is something wrong in the sys-
tom when idlcncss is burdcncd with
wealth and industry with famine.
Get out Of your minds that old non
sense about mans free moral agency.
A man is no moro responsible for his
character than for his height, or for his
acts than for his dreams. Then you
will have charity for the whole human
race.
Wealth is no crime. nor is poverty q
virtue, although virtue has generally
been poor.
There is only one good-human happi.
ness.
To do right is the bud, blossom, and
fruit Of wisdom.
No perfectly civilized man could DO
happy while there was an unhappy be.
ing in the universe that he knew.
The poor imagine that the rich live in
Paradise. know that the most of them
live in n gildcd Hell.
No man has the genius or the brain to
WI s., 900, 600. The money owns him.
He is the key to a safe. Vet these men
20 on accommodating. 1t is a sort of in.
sanity. Imagine "A mana good, intclli.
gent man-with 1000, 900 coats laugh
teri 5000, 600 or 5000, 600 hats Ichccrsl,
n billion nccktics laughter and chccrs
Then imagine him getting up at 1850
o'clock in the morning and working hard
all day to get another nccktic. Pro
longcd applause.
Great wealth is the mother Of crime.
Thc gulf is growing wide between
Lazarus and Dives. only the two have
changed placcs-Divcs is in Abraham's
bosom.
The rich have scorn and contempt for
the poor; the poor envy and hp'rcd for
the rich. There must be some way for
the loving poor and the sympathetic rich
to get acquainted. If there is anything
that should bring mankind together il is
n common belief, but in this Christian
country there is no welcome in the velvet
for the rags. | would think much of
any religion THAI would allow the rich
and the poor TO clasp hands, if only for
II instant once a week.
All men arc not capable Of getting n
living now. Some are not cunning
enough. not strong enough, not stingy
enough.
Millions of machines have been in
vented to save labor, but the laborcI
does not W the machine. The ma.
chine owns the laborcr.
No man shpulI mo ullnwnJ 10 ,y,, ,,,,
land that he docs not use; but | would
not take an inch Of land from any one
without paying for it.
If ii were possible to bottle the air
there would be n great American Air
Bottling Association before shutdown to.
morrow. and millions would be allowed
to die for wan of II breath if they were
unable To pay the monthly air bills.
would not only see homes made free
from attachments for debt, but free from
taxation also. Then VIZ would have "A
nation and a nation of patriots.
There is something about money that
dries up the affections. | suppose that
II reason Of il is that the ono II
man gets any money there arc SO many
trying TO get il away from him that he
thinks the whole race are his enemies. .
don't blame the rich, mind you they
are the natural products of the system.
Blame the system.
The first great remedy is the ballot.
The poor are in the majority. If the
law Expresses them il is their fault.
They have followed the fife and drum OF
some party. No man should go with a
party unless it is going his way.
A civilized man will never want TO sell
a thing for more than it is worth, nor
will he want to buy anything for less
than what it is worth.
| am not afraid Of monopolics, The
people will stand oppression to II certain
point, and then the end will come.-N
Y. sun.